Joy Harjo
Birthday
May 9, 1951 (74 years)
Place of Birth
Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States
Known For
Writing
Biography
Joy Harjo, the 23rd Poet Laureate of the U.S., is a member of the Mvskoke Nation and belongs to Oce Vpofv (Hickory Ground). She is only the second poet to be appointed a third term as U.S. Poet Laureate. Born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, she left home to attend high school at the innovative Institute of American Indian Arts, which was then a Bureau of Indian Affairs school. Harjo began writing poetry as a member of the University of New Mexico’s Native student organization, the Kiva Club, in response to Native empowerment movements. She went on to earn her MFA at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and teach English, Creative Writing, and American Indian Studies at University of California-Los Angeles, University of New Mexico, University of Arizona, Arizona State, University of Illinois, University of Colorado, University of Hawai’i, Institute of American Indian Arts, and University of Tennessee, while performing music and poetry nationally and internationally.
Joy Harjo Movies & TV-shows on Netflix
Movies with Joy Harjo
Love and Fury
Jun 12, 2020
Words from a Bear
Jan 29, 2019
Imagining the Indian: The Fight Against Native American Mascoting
Jan 14, 2021
Medicine Woman
Aug 12, 2016
Pepper's Pow Wow
The Native Americans: The Tribal People of the Northwest
Oct 10, 1994
Cara Romero: Following the Light
Oct 16, 2022
Games of the North
Apr 18, 2011
Jaune Quick-To-See Smith
Jan 1, 1982